| "A Shropshire ---" (Housman) | 38 |
| "A shrewd pickpurse": Howell | 38 |
| "A shout in the street": Joyce | 40 |
| "A Shot in the Dark" star, 1964 | 41 |
| "A Shot in the Dark" actress Sommer | 45 |
| "A short madness": Horace | 35 |
| "A Shilling for Candles" author | 41 |
| "A shaggy ___ soft hide . . . ": Pope | 47 |
| "A Severed Head" novelist, 1961 | 41 |
| "A Severed Head" author Murdoch | 41 |
| "A seven-day diet makes one weak," e.g. | 49 |
| "A set of lies agreed upon": Napoleon | 47 |
| "A Serious Man" directors | 35 |
| "A Serious Man" co-director, 2009 | 43 |
| "A Sentimental Journey" writer | 40 |
| "A Sentimental Journey" author | 40 |
| "A seductive liar": George W. Ball | 44 |
| "A Secretary Is Not ___," 1961 song | 45 |
| "A Season on the Brink" airer | 39 |
| "A Season in Purgatory" novelist | 42 |
| "A Season in Purgatory" author Dunne | 46 |
| "A sea of lead, ___ of slate": Symons | 47 |
| "A Scandal in Bohemia" character | 42 |
| "A Sailor's Admiral" subject | 42 |
| "A ruddy ___ manly blood": Emerson | 44 |
| "A rose ___ rose . . . " | 34 |
| "A rose ___ other name . . . " | 40 |
| "A rose is a rose is a rose" writer | 45 |
| "A Rose for ___" (Faulkner short story) | 49 |
| "A rose by ___ other name . . ." | 42 |
| "A rose by any ___ name ..." | 38 |
| "A rose by any other ___ . . . " | 42 |
| "A Room With a View" view | 35 |
| "A Room With a View" river | 36 |
| "A Room With a View" novelist | 39 |
| "A Room of One's Own" writer | 42 |
| "A Room of One's Own" author | 42 |
| "A Romantic Christmas" musician John | 46 |
| "A rolling stone gathers no ___" | 42 |
| "A robin redbreast in ___": Blake | 43 |
| "A right ___ old elf" (Santa) | 39 |
| "A right jolly old ___" | 33 |
| "A ride on the ___ ..." | 33 |
| "A Retrieved Reformation" writer | 42 |
| "A Raisin in the Sun" writer Hansberry | 48 |
| "A Raisin in the Sun" star Ruby | 41 |
| "A Raisin in the Sun" costar | 38 |
| "A Raisin in the Sun" character | 41 |
| "A Raisin in the Sun" actress Claudia | 47 |
| "A Raisin in the Sun" actress | 39 |
| "A Rainy Night in ___" (1946 hit) | 43 |
| "A Rage to Live" author | 33 |
| "A Rage in Harlem" actress | 36 |
| "A race without ___": Young | 37 |
| "A race without ___!": Young | 38 |
| "A Question of Blood" author Rankin | 45 |
| "A Q O T W F" novelist | 32 |
| "A Pure Woman" of an 1891 novel | 41 |
| "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented" | 45 |
| "A Private View" playwright | 37 |
| "A Pretty Girl ___ a Melody" | 38 |
| "A Prayer for ___ Meany" (Irving novel) | 49 |
| "A Prayer for ___ Meany" | 34 |
| "A Prayer for Owen ___" | 33 |
| "A Prayer for Owen ---" | 33 |
| "A Prayer for --- Meany" | 34 |
| "A Prairie Home Companion" state | 42 |
| "A Prairie Home Companion" home | 41 |
| "A Prairie Home Companion" director | 45 |
| "A Prairie Home Companion" airer | 42 |
| "A Portrait of the ___ Man": Joyce | 44 |
| "A portion of the ___": Shelley | 41 |
| "A poor man's poetry": Moore | 42 |
| "A poem should ___/But be": MacLeish | 46 |
| "A poem lovely as ___": Kilmer | 40 |
| "A poem lovely as ___" | 32 |
| "A poem lovely as a __" | 33 |
| "A pocket full of ___" | 32 |
| "A Pocket Full of Rye" sleuth | 39 |
| "A Plumbing We Will Go" team | 38 |
| "A place you can go," in a 1979 #2 hit | 48 |
| "A Place in the Sun" star | 35 |
| "A Place in the Sun" costar | 37 |
| "A Place in the Sun" band | 35 |
| "A picture is worth ...," e.g. | 40 |
| "A Perfect Spy" novelist John Le ___ | 46 |
| "A Perfect Spy" author John | 37 |
| "A Perfect Spy" author | 32 |
| "A Perfect Peace" novelist | 36 |
| "A Perfect Peace" author Oz | 37 |
| "A Perfect Peace" author | 34 |
| "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" writer | 47 |
| "A penny saved is a penny earned," e.g. | 49 |
| "A penny saved is ..." | 32 |
| "A peculiar sort of a gal," in song | 45 |
| "A peculiar sort of a gal" | 36 |
| "A Passion for ___": Peters-Austin | 44 |
| "A Passage To ___" (1984) | 35 |
| "A Passage To ___" (1984 film) | 40 |
| "A Passage to India" woman ___ Quested | 48 |